These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also joy there, and there's also something in unifying around the things that we do believe in.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.